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Empirical Analysis and Trading Strategies for Defaulted Debt Securities with Models for Risk and Investment Management
Jacobs, Jr., Michael - In: Journal of Financial Transformation 32 (2011), pp. 59-74
. Returns are also increasing for issuers having superior ratings at origination, more leverage at default, higher cumulative … abnormal returns on equity prior to default, or greater market implied loss severity at default. Considering systematic factors …, returns on defaulted debt are positively related to equity market indices and industry default rates. On the other hand …
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Financing Innovation in Italy : An Analysis of Venture Capital and Private Equity Investments
Vacca, Valerio Paolo - 2014
Using a unique data set, this paper describes the main features of the venture capital industry in Italy. Operations by Italian specialised venture capitalists are only in part devoted to small, young firms from advanced industries, have a rather short duration and are weakly focused on a few...
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Italian Banks and Market-Based Corporate Financing
Albareto, Giorgio - 2018
The recent financial crisis has induced firms to turn increasingly to financing sources other than bank credit, and banks to boost their income from non-lending services. This paper provides some evidence concerning possibility and convenience for Italian banks to expand the supply of financial...
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FinTech Credit : A Critical Review of Empirical Research Literature
Branzoli, Nicola - 2020
FinTech credit has attracted significant attention from academics and policymakers in recent years. Given its growing importance, in this paper we provide an overview of the empirical research on FinTech credit to households and non-financial corporations (NFCs). We focus on three broad topics:...
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Optimizing risk allocation for CCPs under the European market infrastructure regulation
Zepeda, Rodrigo - In: Journal of Financial Transformation 37 (2013), pp. 39-52
clearing offers significant benefits such as reduced systemic risk, more effective default management, and mitigation of …
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Understanding business economics for investment managers
Ashkenazy, Irene; Mackris, Frank - In: Journal of Financial Transformation 36 (2013), pp. 18-25
The complex dynamics of world financial markets yield inherent uncertainty and the prospect of periods of enhanced volatility. The turbulent global economic and regulatory environment of the past few years has certainly illustrated this reality. As investment managers interpret clients’...
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Unwrapping Fund Expenses: What are You Paying For?
Jacobsen, Brian - In: Journal of Financial Transformation 30 (2010), pp. 83-88
It has become almost conventional wisdom that investors should avoid funds with high expense ratios. Like many nuggets of conventional wisdom, there is some truth, but many exceptions: some of the best funds come at the price of higher expense ratios. Financial planners need this type of...
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Preventing the Next Great Meltdown
Levine, David - In: Journal of Financial Transformation 30 (2010), pp. 95-104
innovation increased. The two instruments that produced the Great Meltdown of 2008 - subprime mortgages and credit default swaps …
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Optimal business model for financial institutions under post-crisis regulatory environment
Dehnad, Kosrow; Dehnad, Darius - In: Journal of Financial Transformation 36 (2013), pp. 49-54
Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform regulations and other postcrisis regulations and guidelines have put enormous pressure on financial institutions to optimize the use of their scarce capital and to improve their return on equity (ROE) which has been significantly compressed compared to historical...
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Stress testing credit risk portfolios
Jacobs Jr, Michael - In: Journal of Financial Transformation 37 (2013), pp. 53-76
In this study we survey practices and supervisory expectations for stress testing (ST) in a credit risk framework for banking book exposures. We introduce and motivate ST; and discuss the function, supervisory requirements and expectations, credit risk parameters, interpretation results with...
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